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Getting Started: Scanning Your Website
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner
Screenshot 38 - Login Details Options
To test a HTTP password protected area:
1. Tick the box Authenticate with this user name and password combination
2. Enter the username and password
3. Click Next. When Acunetix WVS encounters a HTTP password dialog, it
will use the details you entered.
To test an HTML form password protected area:
1. Click on Record new login sequence. The record login sequence window
starts. The Login Sequence Recorder allows WVS to save and replicate all
the events which were manually performed to access the area secured by the
login page.
2. Browse the HTML
forms login page, enter username and password and
authenticate by clicking
login. Note that
on your website the names of the
fields and the submit button might be different. Now click on the End login
sequence button at the top of the dialog.